Instructions and Warnings
aDo not boast about tomorrow,For you bdo not know what a day may bring forth.James 4:13-16Luke 12:19, 20; James 4:142 Let a astranger praise you, and not your own mouth;A foreigner, and not your own lips.Prov 25:27; 2 Cor 10:12, 18; 12:113 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them.4 Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood,But awho can stand before jealousy?Prov 6:34; 1 John 3:125 Better is reproof that is arevealedThan love that is hidden.Prov 28:23; Gal 2:146 Faithful are the awounds of a friend,But 1deceitful are the bkisses of an enemy.Or excessivePs 141:5; Prov 20:30Matt 26:497 A satisfied soul tramples the honeycomb,But to a hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.8 Like a abird that wanders from her nest,So is a man who bwanders from his place.Prov 26:2; Is 16:2Gen 21:149 aOil and incense make the heart glad,So counsel from the 1soul is sweet to his friend.Lit soul’s counselPs 23:5; 141:510 Do not forsake your afriend or byour father’s friend,And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.Prov 18:241 Kin 12:6-8; 2 Chr 10:6-811 aBe wise, my son, and make my heart glad,That I may brespond with a word to him who reproaches me.Prov 10:1; 23:15; 29:3Ps 119:4212 A prudent man sees evil and hides,The simple pass on and are punished.13 aTake his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;And for 1a foreign woman seize it as a pledge.Or an adulterous, cf. 2:16Prov 20:1614 aHe who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,It will be counted as a curse to him.Ps 12:215 A aconstant dripping on a day of steady rainAnd a contentious woman are alike;Prov 19:1316 He who would 1restrain her 2restrains the wind,And 3grasps oil with his right hand.Lit hide(s)Lit encounters17 Iron sharpens iron,So one man sharpens another.18 He who guards the afig tree will eat its fruit,And he who bkeeps watch for his master will be honored.2 Kin 18:31; Song 8:12; Is 36:16; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:7; 2 Tim 2:6Luke 12:42-44; 19:1719 As in water face reflects face,So the heart of man reflects man.20 aSheol and Abaddon are bnever satisfied,So the ceyes of man are never satisfied.Job 26:6; Prov 15:11Prov 30:15, 16; Hab 2:5Eccl 1:8; 4:821 The arefining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,And each bis tested by the mouth that praises him.Prov 17:3Luke 6:2622 Though you apound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain,His 1folly will not turn aside from him.A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant foolProv 23:35; 26:11; Jer 5:3
23 aKnow well the 1condition of your flocks,And pay attention to your herds;Lit faceJer 31:10; Ezek 34:12; John 10:324 For wealth is not forever,Neither is a acrown from generation to generation.Job 19:9; Ps 89:39; Jer 13:18; Lam 5:16; Ezek 21:2625 When the grass disappears and the vegetation appears,And the herbs of the mountains are agathered in,Is 17:5; Jer 40:10, 1226 The lambs will be for your clothing,And the goats will bring the price of a field,27 And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food,For the food of your household,And sustenance for your maidens.